EU's Vestager says not investigating Google's European tax deals

EU regulators who are investigating whether Alphabet unit (GOOGL.O) Google is abusing its market power have has not extended their scrutiny to its tax deals with national authorities across Europe, the EU's antitrust chief said on Monday.
Margrethe Vestager, who in recent months ordered Apple (AAPL.O) to pay up to 13 billion euros (£12.08 billion) in back taxes to Ireland and Starbucks (SBUX.O) up to 30 million euros to the Dutch tax office, said Google was not on her radar for now.
"So far, no, we have nothing formal on that one," Vestager told reporters.
She said she had not... read more

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